"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."1
I was put in a boys home in my early teens, my father had abandoned his family long before, but he did not know how to be a father, not having one. When I was eighteen I wanted to go to college but I needed help and I had no one to help me, my family was suppose to be there for such. To get help I had to declare independence from my family and to do so I had to prove I had worked full time for a year. So I set off to work and save. One night I was in pain and had to go to the hospital.
The doctor said I needed an appendectomy, a nurse said I should get a second opinion. I was in pain and on drugs, hardly in a state to decide, I had no father to stand for me, no family to help in my time of need. I found out a few months later the nurse was right, as I had the same pain, the diagnosis then was a kidney stone. I had no insurance the first time to cover the appendectomy which really was just a kidney stone, not deseving of the high cost of surgery. The hospital agreed to take care of all expenses, but two years later, which the lawyer said conveniently was past the required time for the hospital to keep records, I receive a judgment for the amount, which was about what I had saved for college.
"He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord God helps me;"1
Such is the plight of a fatherless child, there is no one there to stand with them, no one has their back, no one protects them from an evil world that would exploit them. Paul writes that the love of God has a fundamental principle of belief, or trust. One can say agape love goes beyond circumstances, even beyond obedience and following rules and laws, though a comprehension of this love, that surpasses knowledge, would ultimately produce obedience through love. Thus love believes, hopes, and bears all things for such a purpose. This word for bear is stégō – properly, to place under roof, to cover-over (with a roof); (figuratively) to endure because shielded. Love endures as it bears or shields, it does such because it believes in you, like a loving Father saying, "you are in my hands," I am your shield, I have your back little child.
"The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;"2
Love On The Line
I was put in a boys home in my early teens, my father had abandoned his family long before, but he did not know how to be a father, not having one. When I was eighteen I wanted to go to college but I needed help and I had no one to help me, my family was suppose to be there for such. To get help I had to declare independence from my family and to do so I had to prove I had worked full time for a year. So I set off to work and save. One night I was in pain and had to go to the hospital.
The doctor said I needed an appendectomy, a nurse said I should get a second opinion. I was in pain and on drugs, hardly in a state to decide, I had no father to stand for me, no family to help in my time of need. I found out a few months later the nurse was right, as I had the same pain, the diagnosis then was a kidney stone. I had no insurance the first time to cover the appendectomy which really was just a kidney stone, not deseving of the high cost of surgery. The hospital agreed to take care of all expenses, but two years later, which the lawyer said conveniently was past the required time for the hospital to keep records, I receive a judgment for the amount, which was about what I had saved for college.
"He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord God helps me;"1
Such is the plight of a fatherless child, there is no one there to stand with them, no one has their back, no one protects them from an evil world that would exploit them. Paul writes that the love of God has a fundamental principle of belief, or trust. One can say agape love goes beyond circumstances, even beyond obedience and following rules and laws, though a comprehension of this love, that surpasses knowledge, would ultimately produce obedience through love. Thus love believes, hopes, and bears all things for such a purpose. This word for bear is stégō – properly, to place under roof, to cover-over (with a roof); (figuratively) to endure because shielded. Love endures as it bears or shields, it does such because it believes in you, like a loving Father saying, "you are in my hands," I am your shield, I have your back little child.
"The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;"2
Love On The Line